{"id":674,"date":"2011-08-09T13:40:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=674"},"modified":"2011-09-21T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T21:49:08","slug":"monadnock-easter-seals-closing-mds-looks-to-fill-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/08\/09\/monadnock-easter-seals-closing-mds-looks-to-fill-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Monadnock Easter Seals Closing, MDS Looks To Fill Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Agency closing; services remain \" href=\"http:\/\/www.sentinelsource.com\/news\/local\/agency-closing-services-remain\/article_898c4b91-2962-5458-ba63-7c56554a1949.html\" target=\"_blank\">As Kyle Jarvis of <em>The Keene Sentinel<\/em> reports<\/a>, fallout from state budget cuts continues, this time hitting the Monadnock region.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Easter Seals of Keene is closing its program for young children with disabilities due to lack of funding, but its clients won\u2019t be left out in the cold.<\/p>\n<p>Monadnock Developmental Services, which contracts with Easter Seals to provide services for developmentally disabled children from birth to age 3, is facing a 10 percent reduction in state funding this year. That means a 10 percent cut in the funding from the agency to Easter Seals, which led Easter Seals officials to close its Keene office.<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-story\">\n<div id=\"tncms-region-ads-in-story\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sentinelsource.com\/content\/tncms\/ads\/in-story\/in-story1.js?_dc=1312907271\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nif(typeof oTNCMS_Ad.setRelative == 'function'){ oTNCMS_Ad.setRelative(); }\noTNCMS_Ad.show();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last year, Easter Seals received about $285,000 from Monadnock Developmental Services for its early supports and services program. This year\u2019s figure will fall short of that by about $25,000, said Alan Greene, executive director for Keene-based Monadnock Developmental Services.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is required by state law to provide the services, and will take over for Easter Seals immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The Easter Seals program serves about 100 children with disabilities and their families, and will be terminated on Sept. 2, after 12 years, Easter Seals officials announced Monday.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jarvis reports that as Monadnock Developmental Services takes over\u00a0young children&#8217;s programs, the agency hopes to be able to keep on some Easter Seals employees.\u00a0 MDS is also short on space, and wants to work something out with Easter Seals to\u00a0use its soon-to-be-shuttered office.\u00a0 Whether these moves will represent a cost cut, a cost rise, or a break-even\u00a0point for MDS&#8211;and by extension, the state&#8211;remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kyle Jarvis of The Keene Sentinel reports, fallout from state budget cuts continues, this time hitting the Monadnock region. &#8220;Easter Seals of Keene is closing its program for young children with disabilities due to lack of funding, but its clients won\u2019t be left out in the cold. Monadnock Developmental Services, which contracts with Easter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}